Shirt
Date:
c. 1835
Medium:
Buckskin, buffalo hide, porcupine quills, glass beads, pigment
Dimensions:
Height by width, shoulder to shoulder: 49 x 59 inches (124.5 x 149.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Richard A. Manoogian
Object number:
1988.44
Man's shirt constructed of supple, pale deerskin painted with repetitive half-figures and ceremonial pipe motifs in black and red. Bands of plaited quillwork of yellow, purple, orange and green, bordered with rows of blue pony beads, ornament the arms and shoulder. The broad, fringed neckflap is outlined with a narrow strip of blue and white pony beads.
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